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Our goal is to provide your horse with high quality health care
and diagnostics at a reasonable cost and in a timely manner.
We believe that educating our clients leads to better communication and therefore better care for the horse.
We hope that you will consider this site an excellent resource to further your own knowledge of horses.
It is the monsoon season in Arizona and that means that you will need to watch your performance horses carefully for signs on heat stress. Your horse will have more difficulty dissipating body heat when the temperature and the humidity are both high. If your horse STOPS sweating you will need to start him on ONE AC, which is a feed supplement.
Call our office right away if your horse is not sweating.
We are giving spring vaccines now. The usual immunizations for this area are
EWTF/R + WNV.
Eastern and Western encephalomyleitis, Tetanus, Influenza, Rhinopneumonitis, + West Nile Virus.
When discussing lameness with an equine professional, the following grading scale is the standard:
AAEP Grading System
0 Lameness not perceptible under any circumstances.
1 Lameness is difficult to observe; not consistently apparent regardless of circumstances (i.e., weight carrying, circling, inclines, hard surface, etc.).
2 Lameness is difficult to observe at a walk or in trotting a straight line; consistently apparent under certain circumstances (i.e., weight-carrying, circlng, inclines, hard surface, etc.).
3 Lameness is consistently observable at a trot under all circumstances.
4 Obvious lameness: marked nodding, hitching or shortened stride.
5 Minimal weight-bearing in motion and/or at rest; inability to move.
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